Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.